Subject Types

Building

St John the Baptist upon Walbrook

First recorded in the 12th century. Destroyed in the Great Fire and never rebuilt. The congregation merged with St Antholin Budge Row. The text on the memorial suggests that the churchyard survi...

Building, Religion

1 memorial

Innholders' Hall

Seven years after they received their first charter from Henry VIII in 1514, the Innholders are recorded as occupying a hall on the present site, beneath which lie the foundations of a Roman quay. ...

Building, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial

Cleveland Street Workhouse

Created with an Act of Parliament in 1775, initially for the parish of St Paul in Covent Garden, this is the most intact example of an 18th century workhouse institution left standing in London. J...

Building, Medicine, Social Welfare

1 memorial

Cutlers' Hall

The first recorded Hall was on Ironmonger Lane close to the current Mercers' Hall. By the early 1400s they were in a building in Cloak Lane. Just before the Great Fire of 1666 the hall was rebuilt...

Building, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial

Tallow Chandlers Hall

In 1476 the Tallow Chandlers bought what was probably a merchant’s house on Dowgate Hill and used that as their Hall. The Hall was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt 1671-3. Damaged ...

Building, Liveries & Guilds, Property